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Earlier this month, a federal judge in California dismissed the second of two libel lawsuits filed by Cornell alum against the University that sought millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit alleged that Cornell and its attorney acted improperly in responding to his original libel lawsuit in 2007.
On Jan. 6, United States District Court Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz ruled that Kevin Vanginderen’s ’83 case against Cornell could not go further in the legal process because Vanginderen did not sufficiently prove that his case was well-founded. The judge based his ruling on California’s “anti-SLAPP” legislation, which seeks to curb expensive, unfounded lawsuits against people engaged in protected First Amendment activities.

A resolution to create University committee to assist transfer students was passed at the Student Assembly meeting held yesterday. The resolution, proposed by Andrew Brokman ’11, Transfer Representative At-Large, and co-sponsored by Nikhil Kumar ’11, S.A. Minority Representative, was for the establishment for an ad-hoc committee, known as The Committee on Transfer Affairs, with the responsibility of maintaining transfer-related activities and legislation,
S.A. president Ryan Lavin ’09 said the resolution was the result of problems within the transfer community that had arisen, particularly since the transfer student center had been demolished in September 2006.